On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 13/03/2008, Wily D
<wilydoppelganger(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The ArbCom claims to derive it's authority
from Jimbo's authority, so
such a "route of appeal" remains necessary until ArbCom gets some new
mandate. Presumably, we could (as a community) seperately empower
ArbCom (or a similar body), but it's unclear how we can remove Jimbo's
vestigial authority apart from asking nicely.
We remove his authority by simply declaring it to be gone. He only has
authority because we accept that he does. If we want to, we can have a
big on wiki discussion and if there's a consensus to remove Jimbo's
powers over arbcom, then that's that. (I suppose there may be a need
to get the "new" ArbCom ratified by the foundation so it can grant
checkuser access etc., but I can't see that being a problem, I'm not
sure if it would even be necessary.)
I'm not particularly convinced this is true. It's very likely the
case that if some commanding mandate came from the community
requesting Jimbo step down that he would, but I don't think the mere
act of saying it would make it so. Jimbo compares his role of QEII on
occasion, and it's definitely the case that in at least some of the
countries where she's Queen, she can only de jure be removed from her
position with her permission.
That said, I think you'd be hard pressed to round up much support for
petitioning Jimbo to relinquish that authority to the community. But
do feel free to open a discussion.
WilyD